Dems reverse course, put Jerusalem and God back in party platform (Updated)

9/5/12 4:47 PM EDT

We reported yesterday on the difference between the Democratic party platform language on Jerusalem in 2008 and now — with all references to the city removed from the current language — an issue that officials never explained.

Almost every major Jewish Democratic official faced questions about it this morning, including Sen. Chuck Schumer and former White House chief of staff and current Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel, and now Chuck Todd reports the Democrats have course-corrected:

NBC News has learned that the Democratic Party will reinstate the language recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

Republicans — including the Romney campaign — criticized President Obama and the Democrats after it was discovered this language had been omitted in the Democratic Party's platform

This will all be changed on the floor today, NBC has learned, and it will probably mean just simply reinstating the 2008 language.

The reinstatement will quell the questions to party officials about it, but the fact that the controversy went on for a day was not a help to Democrats. Neither was the controversy over the lack of the word "God" in the platform, which was also restored.

UPDATED: A source familiar with the move confirmed it to POLITICO, adding that the language is being changed "to reflect the president's personal view."

The source added that, after a push from the president, officials "took action to make sure that the platform reflected the president's views. Unlike Mitt Romney who tried to claim last week that the GOP platform didn't reflect his views when he did nothing to change it."